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Another Il Trovotore today. Apparently I own 5 Il Trovotores and have access to another 2-3 on Amazon Prime. Didn't realize I had so many!

Maria Del Monaco, Renata Tebaldi, Guilietta Simionato and Ugo Savarese.
So far this is definitely not the equal of the Mehta recording, but I'm enjoying it well enough. As I become a more experienced listener, I can hear why Mario Del Monaco gets some criticism. I don't dislike hearing him, but he doesn't have the quality timbre I've come to enjoy from Bergonzi, Domingo, Vickers, etc.

I have a few more to listen to, but I need to take a break for awhile with some new material. I'll get back to this opera with a couple of months. Still ahead: recordings with Corelli, a Bjoerling, and Levine's which includes Domingo and April Millo.

The bits I enjoyed most from the previous album were the arias, with Calleja, so I segued into this. His voice is developing very nicely, the vibrato is less noticeable and he does some lovely stuff musically - the diminuendo on the last note of Celeste Aida was gorgeous (I hate when this is belted). I'm looking forward to his Otello one day, he's made a great start in this album but needs to take the characterization a wee bit further.
Joseph Calleja - Verdi - with Vittorio Vitelli (baritone), Angela Gheorghiu (soprano)
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Ramón Tebar

The Twitcher is away and I finished work early so I am having an afternoon of opera, now onto lots of Rameau and Gluck in the hands of masters of the genre:
Enfers - Stéphane Degout (baritone)
Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon

I was referring to the one which you posted, sorry if there was confusion. It looks like yours is Serafin with Bergonzi which I want. The other one I mentioned is a different recording with KARAJAN conducting